Shutter-fastener



(No Model.)

E. G. BROWER. SHUTTBR FASTENER, &c.

Pat'evntevdJuly 14, 1891.

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-' VUNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWIN G. BROYER, OF IOSION, MASSACHUSETTS.

SHUTTER-FASTENER, 84C.

- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,785, dated July 14, 1891. A Application led December 3, 1890. Serial No. 373,490. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, EDWIN G. BROWER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of the city of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improved Fastener forlinds, &c, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to a fastener attachment for blinds, having slats adapted, aswell known, to be opened and closed by means of an operating-rod common to each set of slats embraced by the blind.

The attachment consists of a plate or frame suitable for attachment to a cross-rail of the blind-frame and having two independent slide-bolts adapted to be fixed in any desirable position of adjustment, one for bearing against an end of the operating-rod of the slats and the other for engagement with the sill of the window-frame, substantially as hereinafter described.

In the drawings forming part of this speciication, Figure l is a face view of the lower portion of a blind and of the attachment of this invention, allvon a reduced scale. Fig. 2 is a vertical section, line 2 2, Fig. l. Fig. 3 is a face view of the rear face of the attachment of Figs. l and 2, but detached from the blind.

In the drawings, A A2 are the vertical side rails.

B is the lower cross-rail.

C C are the moving slats, and D is their operating-rod, all as well known and needing no particular description herein.

E is a plate having a recess or depression v E2 in its rear face, and F G are two slide-bolts lying within and eacll arranged to be moved in said recess forward and backward and through guideways F2 G2 at opposite sides F3 G3 of the plate, andwhich sides, with the plate fastened on the lower cross-rail of the blind, are the upper and lower edges of the plate.

`rod may be placed, accord-ing as the slats are more or less opened or closed, and in any of its positions of rest for the rod it is secured against movement by tightening up the thumb-nut of its said bolt, which fastens said bolt to the plate E and contines said rod against downward movement. The lower slide-bolt G is for engagement with a socket L of the window-sill M, and it is shownin engagement and secured by the screw-nut, and thus the blind is fastened closed'.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a blind having opening and closing slats C C2 and an operatingrod D for said slats, of a plate E, held on the lower blind-rail B, a vertical slide-bolt G, held on said plate and at its lower end to engage the window-sill suitably adapted therefor, a vertical slide-bolt F, held on said plate and at its upper end having a horizontally-projected step or rest F4 for the lower end of said Slat-rod D, and means held on said bolt F and adapted to fasten it to and unfasten it from said plate E, as described, for the purposes specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDVIN G. BROVER.

Witnesses:

ANNIE D. BROWER, ALBERT W. BROWN. 

